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   1,234.45

(where . indicates the decimal separator and , the thousands separator)

   Note: This section last updated 1st June 2021

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though the system used in the United States of America will often be found.

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The national languages are English , with 82 000 mother-language speakers and Spanish , with 2 690 000 speakers. There are also a very small number of Dutch Creole-speakers.

   Note: This section last updated 9th April 2015

In Puerto Rico, addresses are mainly written in Spanish. Addresses contain a street address and often also an Urbanization District (abbreviated to Urb).

The USPS request that addresses are written in the original language and that no translation of its components is attempted.

The USPS requires that the neighbourhood/district is written above the address line so that the Puerto Rican addresses contain the data needed for mechanical sorting and delivery (building number + thoroughfare name, settlement + state + postal code) in the same place and order as in other places that the USPS operates. However, it is more common in Spanish-speaking countries that the neighbourhood/district information is written after the street address line, and that order is also commonly found in Puerto Rican addresses.

When a street name is a number, the word calle must be used to prevent confusion between the house number (at the front) and the street number (at the back):

   A17 CALLE 1
   13 CALLE 191

In common with other Spanish-speaking countries, addresses may contain sub-building indicators such as número, casa, lote, #, bloque and so on after the house number. These should be eliminated and replaced by hyphens in this way:

   CALLE 19 BLQ 199 CASA 31

should be

   199-31 CALLE 19

and

   CALLE 117 Bloque 23 num. 18

should be

   23-18 CALLE 117

For Rural Routes and Highway Contracts, always use the English RR or HC and Box and never an equivalent, such as RURAL, RUTA RURAL, RFD, BUZON or BZN. The correct format is:

   RR 3 BOX 17A
   HC 1 BOX 18

Thoroughfare types

   BOULEVARD (BLVD)
   CALLE
   CALLEJON
   CAMINO
   CARRETERA (CARR)
   PARQUE
   PASAJE
   PASEO
   PATIO
   PLAZA
   VEREDA
   VIA
   VISTA

   ALTURA (ALT)
   ALTURAS (ALTS)
   COLINAS
   ESTANCIAS (EST)
   EXTENSIÓN (EXT)
   JARDINES (JARD)
   MANSIONES (MANS)
   PARQUE (PARQ)
   QUINTAS (QTAS)
   REPARTO (REPTO)
   SECTOR (SECT)
   TERRAZA (TERR)
   URBANIZATION (URB)
   VILLA (VILLA)
   VILLAS (VILLA)

   Comprehensive tables of these strings can be acquired – see http:www.grcdi.nl/addresses.htm 

   A table containing information about the relevant position of elements within address blocks can be acquired 

The USPS asks that the string PO BOX and not its Spanish equivalent is always used to indicate post office box. Strings which should be translated to PO BOX are:

   APARTADO
   APT,
   APTDO
   BOX
   BOX,
   BUZON
   CALL BOX
   CALLER
   PO BOXES-

All Puerto Rico postal codes (ZIP Codes) fall in the ranges 00601-00799 and 00901-00999.

   Metadata containing postal code formatting rules, exceptions and regular expressions can be acquired 

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The state code, as written in addresses, is PR.

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All telephone numbers in Puerto Rico have the area codes 787 or 939. Subscriber numbers have 7 digits.

   Tables of telephone number information/formats can be acquired – see http://www.grcdi.nl/telephone.htm